Subject: the plot sickens
Date: Feb 12 09:09:04 1998
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at mail.ups.edu


Hi tweets,

I just got a call from Carole Sheridan, a bird rehabber in Tacoma, who said
she picked up a Laysan Albatross in a berry patch in Gig Harbor (this gives
a whole nother dimension to "U-pick").

Was this the bird in the possession of HOWL a few days ago? Did they
release it in Puget Sound rather than at the outer coast, as I recommended
to them? Carole is trying to find out. If not, it's an amazing coincidence,
and Laysan Albatrosses must be streaming into the Puget Sound area at a
pretty high rate. They are at least as common as Black-footed off the WA
coast in winter, so if albatrosses were doing weird things they might well
be Laysan. But I still find it hard to believe that they would move into
*Puget Sound* as a consequence of poor feeding conditions offshore. But who
knows?

Keep those eyes peeled!

Dennis

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 253-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 253-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416
http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/museum.html